List of sons and daughters of the city of Kazan

This is a list of famous people who were born in the Russian city of Kazan .

18th century

Fyodor Radezki
(1820–1890)

Jegor Wagner
(1849–1903)

Wera Figner
(1852–1942)

MakSim
(* 1983)

Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811–1877), Austrian astronomer
Fyodor Radezki (1820–1890), General
Alexander Saizew (1841–1910), chemist
Stepan Smolenski (1848–1909), composer, church musician and musicologist
Jegor Wagner (1849–1903), chemist

Wera Figner (1852–1942), revolutionary and one of the Narodniki
Yevgeny Tschirikow (1864–1932), writer, playwright, essayist and publicist
Alexander Kotelnikow (1865–1944), mathematician
Nikolai Markovnikov (1869–1942), architect, restorer and university professor
Nikolai Jakowlew (1870–1966), geologist, paleontologist and university lecturer
Nikolai Bauman (1873–1905), revolutionary
Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), opera singer
Sergei Namjotkin (1876–1950), chemist
Alexander Porai-Koschiz (1877–1949), chemist and university professor
Vladimir Adoratski (1878–1945), historian and philosopher
Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1879–1957), Tatar statesman, legal scholar, thinker and scientist, member of the Russian Duma and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Sergei Malow (1880–1957), linguist, orientalist and Turkologist
Nikolai Feschin (1881–1955), Russian or American artist
Alexander Arosew (1890–1938), writer, politician and diplomat
Georg von Albrecht (1891–1976), German pianist, composer and university professor
Ekaterina Maximowa (1891–1932), architect
Alexander Archangelsky (1892–1978), aircraft designer
Gala Éluard Dalí (1894–1982), muse
Jewgeni Schwarz (1896–1958), writer and playwright
Michail Lavrentjew (1900–1980), mathematician and physicist

Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russian-French pioneer of animation
Sophie Ehrhardt (1902–1990), German-Russian anthropologist and “Gypsy researcher” on racial ideology during the National Socialist era
Alexander Lurija (1902–1977), psychologist
Wassili Parin (1903–1971), physiologist, space medicine specialist and university professor
Nikolai Sabolozki (1903–1958), poet and translator
Alexei Zhivotov (1904–1964), composer
Wladimir Schuse (1904–1993), physicist and university professor
Boris Laptev (1905-1989), mathematician
Alexander Wischnewski (1906–1975), surgeon
Lucian Klimowitsch (1907–1989), orientalist and Islamic scholar
Yevgeny Sawoiski (1907–1976), physicist, discoverer of electron spin resonance , worked at the University of Kazan
Vladimir Kotelnikow (1908–2005), radio technology engineer
Gertrud Westermann (1908–1995), German teacher and historian, Balticist
Igor Ado (1910-1983), mathematician
Alexei Ilyushin (1911–1998), physicist and university professor
Kārlis Šteins (1911–1983), Latvian and Soviet astronomer
Ahmet Temir (1912-2003), Tatar Turkologist
Lev Besymensky (1920–2007), author, historian and journalist

Sanija Afsametdinowa (1924–2019), architect
Almas Monassypow (1925–2008), composer and conductor
Wadim Solowjow (1925–1998), theoretical nuclear physicist
Gregory Freiman (* 1926), Russian-Israeli mathematician
Tatjana Alexejewa (1928–2007), anthropologist and university professor
Amina Adil (1930-2004), Tatar writer and Sufi theologian
Sofia Gubaidulina (* 1931), composer
Vasily Aksjonow (1932–2009), writer
Roald Sagdejew (* 1932), physicist
Mikhail Roschtschin (1933–2010), playwright and screenwriter
Albert S. Schwarz (* 1934), Russian-American mathematician and mathematical physicist
Igor Wuloch (1938–2012), painter
Dmitry Fuchs (* 1939), Russian-American mathematician
Vladimir Sakharov (* 1939), theoretical physicist and mathematician

Renad Sagdejew (* 1941), chemist
Natalja Gutman (* 1942), cellist
Dmytro Kiwa (* 1942), Ukrainian aircraft designer
Gennady Banshchikov (* 1943), composer
Alexei Sukletin (1943–1987), serial killer, rapist and cannibal
Gennady Yevryushichin (1944–1998), football player
Albert Kapengut (* 1944), Belarusian chess player and trainer
Talgat Tajuddin (* 1948), highest Islamic dignitary (Grand Mufti) in Russia
Alexander Gretschkin (* 1952), chemist
Valentina Nikonova (* 1952), fencer
Nailja Giljasowa (* 1953), fencer
Olga Knjasewa (1954-2015), fencer
Valery Gerasimow (* 1955), General and since 2012 Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
Wladimir Dmitrijew (* 1957), experimental solid-state physicist
Marat Murtasin (* 1957), personality of Islam
Sergei Abramow (* 1959), ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
Lidija Averianova (* 1960), rower

Rustem Adagamow (* 1961), blogger and photojournalist
Irina Polyakowa (* 1961), trainer and disabled athlete
Valiulla Jakupow (1963–2012), Islamic cleric
Alexander Fadejew (* 1964), figure skater
Leon Vološin (* 1964), Czech chess player of Russian origin
Ildar Achmerow (* 1965), military officer and commander of the Caspian flotilla
Ajrat Chamatow (* 1965), boxer and featherweight champion from 1989
Vlady Bystrov (* 1967), German-Russian saxophonist
Denis Kapustin (* 1970), athlete, European triple jump champion ( 1994 ) and Olympic bronze medalist ( 2000 )
Evgeni Afinejewski (* 1972), American director and producer
Alissa Galljamowa (* 1972), chess player
Anna Gourari (* 1972), concert pianist
Dmitri Jatschanow (* 1972), ice hockey goalkeeper
Eduard Kudermetow (* 1972), ice hockey player
Wassili Mossin (* 1972), marksman
Vadim Tokarew (* 1972), professional boxer
Marija Manakova (* 1974), Russian-Serbian women's grandmaster in chess
Ruslan Nigmatullin (* 1974), soccer goalkeeper
Tschulpan Khamatova (* 1975), actress
Gusel Jachina (* 1977), writer and filmmaker
Denis Archipov (* 1979), ice hockey player
Sofya Gulyak (* 1979), concert pianist
Valery Tscheplanowa (* 1980), German actress and singer

Nikolai Nikiforov (* 1982), politician
Ruslan Sainullin (* 1982), ice hockey player
MakSim , actually Marina Abrossimowa (* 1983), pop singer, author and music producer
Dmitri Obukhov (born 1983), ice hockey player
Marat Chairullin (* 1984), Russian-Kazakh football player
Jelena Migunowa (* 1984), athlete
Rais Suleimanow (* 1984), religious and Islamic scholar
Eugenia Volodina (* 1984), model
Lenar Gilmullin (1985-2007), football player
Alexander Rybakov (* 1985), ice hockey player
Artyom Timofejew (* 1985), chess grandmaster
Artyom Kosov (* 1986), rower
Daniel Nasybullin (* 1986), ice hockey player
Aida Garifullina (* 1987), opera singer
Alsu Murtasina (* 1987), triple jumper
Kamilla Gafursianova (* 1988), foil fencer
Jana Martynowa (* 1988), swimmer
Karina Ambarzumowa (* 1989), chess player
Dinar Chafisullin (* 1989), ice hockey player
Kirill Petrov (* 1990), ice hockey player
Darja Schkurichina (* 1990), gymnast and Olympic champion

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